Police in New York say an axe attack on two officers was a terrorist act carried out by a radicalised Muslim convert. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29753347 Zale Thompson, 32, was shot dead after wounding the two officers, one critically, in Queens on Thursday. Commissioner William Bratton said Thompson was not on any watch lists but had browsed al-Qaeda […]

An unmanned US plane on a top-secret, two-year mission to space has returned to Earth and landed in California. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29669205 The aircraft, resembling a miniature space shuttle and known as the Orbital Test Vehicle or X-37B, spent 674 days in orbit around the planet. It was the unmanned plane’s third space flight, but its mission […]